Posted on 09/12/22
| News Source: NBC New York
A Brooklyn woman is lucky to be alive after being shot in the head - thanks to a Sheitel that seems to have absorbed the blow of the projectiles.
Police say the incident happened about 7:20 p.m. Saturday in Williamsburg. A woman, 21, was standing at the corner of Ross Street and Bedford Avenue when a dark-colored car approached. A back-seat passenger lowered their window, displayed what appeared to be a weapon of some kind and opened fire.
The rounds -- described by police as beads of some kind -- struck the Orthodox Jewish woman in her sheitel.
Cops say the sheitel absorbed the blow, and she was not hurt. The suspects fled, and no one was in custody as of Sunday night.
It was not immediately clear if the assault was being investigated as a hate crime or not. Year-to-date, hate crimes in the city are up 17% versus last year, but more recently antisemitic hate crimes have more than doubled.